The grassroots experiments of Samarthan have become large scale and certain degree of specialization has emerged in the area of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ( WASH). There are large scale programmes around community health and new initiative around Watershed programes.

The thematic center will work on the issues of governance of various development programmes to understand the implementation challenges due to inadequate capacities or weak systems and procedures. There is a need to build demand for the programmes by participatory planning and implementation, community monitoring and introduce constitutionally mandated instruments of social accountability like social audit etc.